Confederation Congress

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The Confederation Congress of the English Congress of the Confederation , also United States in Congress Assembled , represented the government of the United States of America from March 1, 1781 to March 4, 1789. The predecessor was the Second Continental Congress . The Confederation Congress met in various places in the United States, first in Philadelphia , later in Princeton New Jersey , Trenton New Jersey, Annapolis Maryland , and finally in New York . The Confederation Congress consisted of representatives from the individual states. In 1790 he was from today's Congress of the United States English 'United States Congress' replaced. The congress had 50 members. Most of the members were taken over from its predecessor, the Second Continental Congress. It was not the members who were entitled to vote, but the 13 states. Each state had 1 vote. Congress was established at the end of the fighting during the War of Independence . The legal basis for the Confederation Congress was formed by the Articles of Confederation , which were adopted on November 15, 1777 as the first US constitution by the Second Continental Congress and came into force on March 1, 1781 after the 13 states had ratified them in a three-year process.

literature

  • Edmund C. Burnett: "The Continental Congress" . Greenwood Publishing ,, ISBN 0-8371-8386-3 .
  • H. James Henderson, "Party Politics in the Continental Congress" . Rowman & Littlefield, Boston, ISBN 0-8191-6525-5 .
  • Merrill Jensen, "New Nation: A History of the United States During the Confederation, 1781-1789" . Knopf, New York 1950.
  • Andrew C. McLaughlin, "A Constitutional History of the United States" 1935, ISBN 978-1-931313-31-5 .
  • Lynn Montross, "The Reluctant Rebels; the Story of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789" . Barnes & Noble, New York, ISBN 0-389-03973-X .
  • Richard B. Morris, "The Forging of the Union, 1781-1789" . Harper & Row, New York 1987, ISBN 0-06-091424-6 .
  • Richard B. Morris: The Confederation Period and the American Historian . In: William and Mary Quarterly . 13, No. 2, 1956, pp. 139-156. doi : 10.2307 / 1920529 .
  • Jack N. Rakove, "The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress" . Knopf, New York 1979, ISBN 0-394-42370-4 .